[Samba] Samba4 and files downloaded from Internet

Michael Wood esiotrot at gmail.com
Sun Sep 12 02:40:09 MDT 2010


Hi

2010/9/11 Magnus Benngård <magnus.b at inputinterior.se>:
> Hi all,
>
> I am new to Samba4 so sorry if my first question is "stupid".
>
> We have some Windows7 computers at our office and i decided to give Samba4
> a try.
>
> Did follow: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO
>
> No big problem, some hours later I had a Windows7 box joined to the Samba4
> domain and a user logged in, did create some text documents on the users
> desktop, logged out and saw that the documments was syncronized to the
> Samba4 server.
>
> Did remove the user files and the registry settings and logged in again,
> all files and settings came back! :) Me very happy!
>
> But, when I downloaded I file from Internet, saved it on the Desktop and
> logged out, that file was not syncronized. Did some Google work and some
> testing, found out that:
>
> gpedit.msc -> User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows
> Components -> Attachment Manager
> Enable "Do not preserve zone information in file attachments"
>
> That solved my problem, but not sure if it is the right way to do it, can
> u solve in the Samba4 config instead?
>
> Ofc, i can ask the users to clear the zoon info for every file they fetch
> but i don't think they will be able, they are sales guys not computer pros.
>
> Any advice would be nice,
>
> Magnus

There are more and more people trying Samba4, so it is probably not a
bad idea to try the samba list first as you have done, but if you
don't get an answer, try samba-technical as per the Samba4 HOWTO.

I have CCed samba-technical.

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>


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